Fernando De Leon is the founder and CEO of Leon Capital Group, a holding company that operates assets in the financial services, healthcare, real estate, and technology industries. Leon is not a private equity fund, it operates as a family holding company overseeing $10 billion of its own private assets. Leon takes the lead conceiving, developing, owning, and operating businesses.
For the past 20 years, Mr. De Leon has structured investments with an asset value of $20B+. Leon Capital’s vehicles have invested in or developed approximately 20,000 rental housing units, 25M SF of industrial, 15M SF of retail, self-storage, and healthcare assets and 10,000 lots of land in residential subdivisions.
Leon’s current portfolio includes 10,000 apartments and 10 million square feet of commercial real estate in various markets across the southwestern and southeastern U.S. Additionally, Leon Capital, along with the Perot Companies, co-founded a European industrial holding company, which has developed over 40 M SF of industrial assets in the European Union.
Mr. De Leon is a co-founder of Crexi, one of the largest digital marketplaces connecting buyers, sellers, landlords and tenants in the commercial real estate sector. Crexi’s intelligence products support real estate professionals with real time transaction data.
Mr. De Leon and his team at Leon founded and currently operate Leon Financial, which holds banking interests and investments in the wealth management industry.
In the healthcare sector, Mr. De Leon and his team at Leon founded and currently operate Specialty Dental Brands, Frontline Dental Implant Specialists, Advanced Med Aesthetic Partners, Physician Directed Partners, Texas Heart Partners, Mattison Avenue, and Turnwell Mental Health.
Mr. De Leon began his career as an analyst at Goldman Sachs in New York. He received a BA, cum laude, from Harvard College, where he was a Hoover Foundation Scholar and a National Coca Cola Scholar. The De Leon Family Foundation focuses its work on poverty in south Texas and northern Mexico and expanding access to healthcare. The De Leon Scholars program awards scholarships to twenty students annually across the state of Texas, who endeavor to improve their communities.
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